As expected, there's plenty of hype surrounding the Destiny 2 Root of Nightmares raid. Although the campaign failed to deliver a proper story, players have been looking forward to this raid with the hope that it will help tie up some of the loose ends with respect to the storyline.
Just like every new raid, there's practically very little information about what the players are going to face in this activity. While there's enough evidence to confirm the identity of the main boss in this activity, there's no information about the mechanics whatsoever. In an ideal scenario, the same would have held true for the activity rewards, but there's a leak doing the rounds that hints at a weapon that could possibly be the Raid Exotic for Destiny 2 Root of Nightmares.
The leak in question was spotted on Reddit and contained a lot of information pertaining to what the boss looks like and what the encounters are called. The leak further goes on to mention that the Exotic reward for the raid is a Shotgun. This weapon is fairly interesting as it has an elemental affinity to both Solar and Stasis. To make things even more interesting, it's believed to be a Kinetic weapon as well, making it the very first of its kind.
If the information that's revealed by these leaks is true, then Destiny 2 Root of Nightmares will be the second raid to feature an Exotic Shotgun as a raid reward. The Legend of Acrius was the first Exotic Shotgun to be featured as a raid reward, and could be obtained from the Leviathan raid.
With that said, given how unique this weapon is, it'll be truly interesting to see how it performs in combat. Unfortunately, nothing more is known about this weapon for now. However, the raid is almost here and will kick off in a little over
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